Thomas Reade
Birth | 11/21/1741 | | |
Death | 02/07/1817 | | |
Aged: 75.2 years
Colonel Read was the first, and for fifty-two years, Clerk of the County. He was County Lieutenant during the War of the Revolution; marched with the County Levy to Petersburg, and again to oppose Cornwallis on the Dan. He was Member of the Conventions 1774-1775 and 1776, and in the Convention of 1788 he opposed the adoption of the Federal Constitution.